Science picksleads, feeds and story seeds (November 2002)
...om the atmosphere and holding it in "sinks" on the landscape is a critical component to dealing with global climate change curbing emissions alone will not bring the natural carbon cycle into better balance. Carbon dioxide emissions are beginning to be traded as commodities, creating a new market sector. In...Stung by success: Intensive farming may suppress pollinating bees
...-up studies to determine what parts of the natural landscape are critical for native bees and what parts of the man-made agricultural landscape also may support native bees. "Ultimately, we should be able to come up with a plan for restoring th...Expert talks on invasive species Wednesday in D.C.
...oncerned Scientists, on theinvasive-species policy landscape and high-priority NGOactions....Biologist unlocks secrets of winter survival
...and depicts in detailed illustrations the bustling landscape that lies under the seemingly quiet Maine woods he has studied since his boyhood. "He richly deserves comparisons to Thoreau," says the Washington Post of Heinrich, whose first book, "Bumblebee Economics," was nominated for a National Book Award. "W...World-first Australian truffle find
...scovered the new fungus in the rejuvenating forest landscape of a former bauxite mine near Perth, WA, no one ha.... The CSIRO researcher was part of a team studying landscape rehabilitation at the Darling Escarpment bauxite mine run by Alcoa World Alumina Australia - regard...Scientists make a BID towards understanding chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
...elets. Over time, such alterations in the cellular landscape of CMML patients' bone marrow causes paleness, bruising, bleeding, and ultimately without treatment death. This discovery by Dr. Korsmeyer and colleagues not only posits BID as a possible genetic culprit in human CMML, but it also highlights potent...Researchers working to devise plan for Palo Alto Battlefield Restoration
...counts and topography maps to help them vision the landscape where the U.S. army was victorious May 8, 1846. By performing experiments on the range and studying the vegetation and hydrological makeup of the soil, the group says they will be able to come up with a restoration model they can present to the Nati...Science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds (February 2003)
... In a sense, these are super species invading the landscape and we could use a little kryptonite! or maybe we need to go back to their native lands and bring their parasites here to get invasive species under control. At least with Superman, his super powers were used for good deeds, but these super species...USDA Forest Service publishes wildland-urban interface assessment
...amines the urban and rural fringes of the Southern landscape where multiple land uses meet forested lands. Rapidly increasing human populations and spreading cities and suburbs throughout the South are creating both opportunities and challenges for natural resource managers. SFRA found that urbanization will h...A global 'catastrophe' -- coal fires threaten environment, human health
...d by heat from above-ground fires set to clear the landscape for farming. Once underway, coal fires can burn for decades, even centuries. In the process, they release large volumes of greenhouse and noxious gases and soot particles into the atmosphere. While researchers have yet to measure coal fires' emissi...What to plant when the fires go out
...specific sites. The outcome should be to create a landscape in which we can control the fires we don't want and promote those we do."...[Mis]understanding village abandonments
...nd found that the ancients had shaped the cultural landscape for their descendents. Today, the descendants of the original Mesa Verde groups live in many settlements along the Rio Grande River in New Mexico, and in the Pueblos of Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi in western New Mexico and north-central Arizona. Th...Diamond film may enable critical new sensors for bioterror
...ld be deployed on vehicles or scattered across the landscape to warn of the presence of such agents. Early warning could save lives and enable soldiers to prepare to operate in a contaminated environment. Chips made with diamond films may also have important economic implications in research. One of the most i...Paving roads can increase weed invasions
...otic [non-native] plant invasions in this semiarid landscape by minimizing the construction of new roads and the improvement of existing roads," say Gelbard and Belnap....Natural Science and Public Health: Prescription for a Better Environment
...an health we must recognize them early. Often the landscape or the wildlife gives us our first "warnings." Because understanding environmental health is a prerequisite to protecting human health, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is hosting Natural Science and Public Health: Prescription for a Better Enviro...Terrestrial Plant Invasions in the Temperate South
... landowners; horticulturists, aboriculturists, and landscape architects; and plant science educators and researchers....Genetic reconnaissance identifies new colon cancer genes
...inases -- reasoning that somewhere in this genomic landscape they might encounter novel mutations that spur colon cancer and other types of cancer. The researchers -- including Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators Bert Vogelstein and Sanford Markowitz -- published their findings in the May 9, 2003,...Gene may produce drought-resistant plants
...att Jenks, associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture. Manipulating what the gene does or when it is turned on could result in plants better able to survive in arid conditions. Jenks and his research team isolated more than 20 mutant Arabidopsis plants that showed alterations in the amount...Three Gorges Dam is an opportunity for ecoscience
...May 23 issue of Science, Arizona State University landscape ecologist Jianguo Wu and co-authors Jianhui Huang...tats that suddenly become scattered islands when a landscape is flooded. While some plant and animal species initially remain on the habitat fragments, the long-...Field Museum awarded $5.2 million for community-based conservation in Peru
...cluding community-based park management as well as landscape restoration and agroforestry on abandoned or eradicated coca plantations and denuded lands--to promote local support for the park and to provide ecologically compatible activities that improve the quality of residents in the region....